[scribus] The Scribus target - a question for the developers

[Gustavo Homem]

On Thursday 04 September 2008 05:05, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:42:37 +0100
>
> Gustavo Homem <gustavo at angulosolido.pt> dijo:
> > > Interesting thought.  And , as an ex-engineer, understandable . . . yet
> > > I consider Open Office (at least the word processor) as a "finished"
> > > product. Perhaps the corporate involvement in Open Office provides the
> > > additional resources, of the right kind, to "finish"  the product.
> >
> > This is an interesting comment. Maybe we could breifly discuss why you
> > consider OpenOffice.org more "finished" than Scribus 1.3.3.12 (the stable
> > version).
>
> I tend to agree that OOo is a more finished product. The reason I feel
> that way is because of its standing in relation to its competitors.

Well, the relation of a product the market is a complex one. The office suite 
market is more permeable than the DTP one because it is less technical. Basic 
users hardly notice the difference between OO and MSO.

My point was more about whether or not Scribus works as expected for all the 
*basic usage* scenarios. I sometimes get the impression that while Scribus 
has some very advanced features there are small annoying bugs in basic 
operations that prevent it from looking more "finished". However I also feel 
that this has been improving *a lot* with latest 1.3.3.X releases:

http://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php

I tend to think that it may be important to maintain the stable branch for 
quite some time in order to have a "finished produtct".

Cheers
Gustavo

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